V.15:14 (681-682): Product Review: OpCalc Professional 3.50 by John Sweeney

OpCalc Professional 3.50 (Austinsoft, Inc.). Value-priced software for equity and futures options analysis and trading recommendations. by John Sweeney

OpCalc Professional 3.5 is a quick position calculator that uses data from a Signal data server, or imports — but does not download — its data from an Internet download or spreadsheet export file. Once it gets its data and your outlook, it can generate recommended trades for stocks, futures or indices rated by return on investment (ROI) and restricted by risk assessment. Trades that are selected can be put into a position-monitoring module that shows both the total position and all the legs.

Getting from here to there, though, can be something of a challenge. Though 3.5 sports a spiffy interface and a seamless hookup to a running Signal for Windows server, it is not capable of solving some problems that come with Signal’s options quote system.